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Topic: Meteobridge not connecting to Cumulus (Read 953 times)

My meteobridge will not connect to Cumulus. I've had it up and running for a year. The meteobridge is connected to my router, I have an address, but does not connect to either Cumulus or to weather underground. I've checked the address and it is correct in setup. We had a short power outage and I've recently changed the comcast modem. Any ideas?

I take it you can confirm that your Cumulus box is using a static IP address? otherwise DHCP could possibly lease a different IP each time the power is restarted.

Good point especially because they just made changes to the network with ISP change that probably changed their router if they didn't have their own. But I would never recommend to set a static address. Instead I would recommend a DHCP reservation via MAC Address entry into the router to then dish out the same IP to that computer. This way it removes the possibility of an IP conflict. Most routers default DHCP range is the entire subnet of .2 through .254 and so any static assignment you make has the possibility of ending up as a conflict. If you are going so do a static and also reduce the DHCP range in the router to remove the conflict, then while you are there in the router might as well instead just set up a reservation.

I would check USB connection. If using a USB hub test it that it didn't go bad (with another device and a PC) and that it has power.

I take it you can confirm that your Cumulus box is using a static IP address? otherwise DHCP could possibly lease a different IP each time the power is restarted.

Good point especially because they just made changes to the network with ISP change that probably changed their router if they didn't have their own. But I would never recommend to set a static address. Instead I would recommend a DHCP reservation via MAC Address entry into the router to then dish out the same IP to that computer. This way it removes the possibility of an IP conflict. Most routers default DHCP range is the entire subnet of .2 through .254 and so any static assignment you make has the possibility of ending up as a conflict. If you are going so do a static and also reduce the DHCP range in the router to remove the conflict, then while you are there in the router might as well instead just set up a reservation.

Nothing wrong with fixed/static IP address, it all has to do with understanding and management